2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I was wrong. I'm sorry. .... [View all]TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...and I watched the whole thing. Here's my summary:
3:00-3:45
Strength, pride, achievement
rise of AA middle-class, leadership, professionals, vibrancy of AA church
4:50 - 8:40
Flint - described as Overwhelmingly AA, overwhelmingly poor
Quotes Sanders: would this have happened in an overwhelmingly white community?
- Underinvestment
- Lack of education
- Poor have been left out and left behind
9:40 - 11:30
- Talks about systemic issues (mortgage denial, etc.)
- Law enforcement (likelihood of being stopped, likelihood of being jailed)
- Lack of health services
15:50 - 17:00
- Direct targeted investments to communities left behind
- Promises hundreds of billions for such communities
17:30 - 17:40
- Access to investment capital
18:35 - 19:00
- Promoting AA home ownership through helping them save for down-payments
19:20 - 20:00
- Affordable College
- Debt refinancing
***wierd gap***
20:20 - 23:50
- Total reform of criminal justice
- mentioned her first campaign speech dealing with criminal justice reform
- Correct disparities in sentencing
- End epidemic of people dying in police custody
- Empower Justice Dept to hold police accountable
- Invest in re-entry programs for formerly incarcerated
25:03 - 27:35
- School to prison pipeline
28:03 - 28:35
- Protecting the right to vote for AAs
30:00 - END
- About her history
I kept track of when she was specifically talking about policies or AA communities in general. There was some filler in there that I didn't notate. After the first 45 seconds she goes straight into economic/law enforcement/voting issues for the next 27 or so minutes. If that 45 seconds is all that you got in what is essentially a copy of Bernie's racial justice Page (https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/) then I guess you got me. Sanders, as far as I can tell, never led his policy discussions with that kind of language. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad thing to celebrate successes where they exist. To say that just because Sanders doesn't tack on 45 seconds of praise to his speeches indicates that he doesn't value AA's is a bit out there. It also doesn't diminish any real concerns he may have for how this country has treated PoCs.
Now, you may question my statement of her speech being a copy of Sanders racial justice page. Fortunately the internet keeps track of things like this. Sanders racial justice page was added on Aug 9, 2015. Hillary didn't get around to adding that section to her website until Feb 16, 2016. Thanks Archive.org. To me, that indicates an acute awareness of these issues and a clear attempt to bring them to the forefront. It was one of the first issues pages he added to his site. For someone portrayed as so tone-deaf to the AA community he sure tried to address very real issues in very specific ways pretty early on in his campaign.